5. To understand the Middle Ages, we need to take a step back from our society filled with written and visual messages. Image: Giotto di Bondone. Padua, Italy, Scrovengi Chapel. Scala/Art Resource, NY.
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7. How did images function in the Middle Age, then? Were they “Bibles for the Illiterate”? Image : Baroncelli Chapel, Santa Croce, Florence. Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz-Max-Planck-Institut
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9. Our understanding of the Middle Ages is still filled with mis- and pre-conceptions. Image: Man-at-arms mounting his horse. Miniature from Jean de Meung, L’Arte de Chevalrie, 1284-ca. 1325. London, British Library. MS.2430, fol.2v.